Draw of lots favors Guinea ahead of Mali in the AFCON Group D deadlock against Mali

(Ahram English)

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Guinea and Mali were stuck in a two way lane on points and statistics and could only be seperated by a rule under the Confederation of African Football, CAF's Article 27 which states that in a case where there is a tie between two or three countries in a group, a draw-of-lots will be conducted.

The two countries ended the group with three draws from three games, conceding three goals and head-to-head could not seperate them as there was none better than the other.

''Article 74 :There will be two balls with position two (2) and position three (3), and the representative of the two teams will pick a ball from the pot. The one who picks position two (2) qualifies for the quarter final''

After the draw-of-lots by CAF on Thursday, Guinea was favoured to play in the quarter-final against Ghana who topped Group C.

Quarter Final clashed:

Congo vs RD Congo

Tunisia vs Eq. Guinea

Ghana vs Guinea

Cote D'Ivoire vs Algeria

It can be recalled that Nigeria was eliminated at the 2003 FIFA Youth Championship in a draw-of-lots against Costa Rica.